JSP configured in web.xml

[carina caoor]

i have a jsp at location c:\tomcat5.5\webapps\Myplots\src\jsp\Welcome.jsp Welcome.jsp

[code]

<link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../css/PlotManagement.css">

</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<%
response.setHeader("Cache-Control","no-store"); //HTTP 1.1
response.setHeader("Pragma","no-cache"); //HTTP 1.0
response.setDateHeader ("Expires", 0); //prevents caching at
%>

<div ID=maindiv>

<%@ include file="header.jsp" %>


and my PlotManagement.css is at c:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\Myplots\src\css\PlotManagement.css

i configured the jsp in web.xml as


<servlet>
<servlet-name>second</servlet-name>
<jsp-file>/src/jsp/Welcome.jsp</jsp-file>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>second</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/welcomepage</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

The raw data present in my jsp is given as output with out formatting it which is done by including the .css files... my jsp do not includes the css files but when i remove the configuration from the web.xml it shows output by including the .css file i tried by modifying the path of the included file but it still does not show me the formatted output produced using .css file...
please help me with this..

[Bear Bibeault]

Your resource URLs are likely malformed. Please see the JSP FAQ on resource URLs for more information.
[ October 05, 2008: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Travis Hein]

I think the problem is with the relative URL for the CSS reference.

This should be an absolute URL, and possibly relative to the context path.
So without using JSP-EL,

<link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/src/css/PlotManagement.css">

The reason is when you invoke the jsp from /src/jsp/Welcome.jsp the path ../css does work,

but when it is invoked as /second/, the ../css would be looking up at the sibling level of the context path to the application.

Additionally, if you have not ran into problems with the setting of headers for cache control yet, typically setting response headers needs to be done before any content would be sent back to the client. So in your example, moving the the response.setHeader.. stuff to be the very first line in your JSP file, before you render HTML, HEAD, might help that from breaking later too.

[Bear Bibeault]

Originally posted by Travis Hein:
This should be an absolute URL...

If by "absolute URL" you mean one beginnning with http:// (what absolute is usually taken to mean), then no.

The URLs should be context-relative (not absolute) as described in the FAQ entry I mentioned and as you showed in your example.
[ October 05, 2008: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]